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tea leaves

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tea leaves

Noun

∙ plural of tea leaf
∙ A placeholder name for something, not necessarily tangible, used to make a prediction. uncountable

tea leaf

Noun

∙ A dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea. usually used in the plural
∙ A thief. Cockney rhyming slang